Twenty years on from the ground-breaking UN
Earth Summit in 1992 that lead to everything from climate change negotiations
to the creation of ANPED, the upcoming Rio + 20 event in 2012 faces many
challenges. Dark clouds are accumulating above the next Summit, as governments
are not willing to show political will and leadership as they did 20 years ago.
But despite short-sighted policymaking and indifference there are still
opportunities for promoting ideas around progressive socially-just sustainable
development. Civil Society has to take this role and show responsibility!
Read the ANPED position for Rio +20, a Switch Special Rio+20 Issue with 5 guest authors or meet civil society
on Rio+20 here. And don't forget to sign our petition to urge heads of state to attent the Rio+20 conference!
ANPED LATEST NEWS
Januari 2012: the second issue of Own the Edge is here
Januari 2012: a new issue of The Switch is here
December 2011: ANPED publishes new monthly newsletter on Rio+20: Own the Edge.
This is the first issue
November 2011: ANPED published a leaflet on the Resource Capped Economy
Click here for reading the leaflet
November 2011: ANPED published a 12 pager on Environmental Justice and social equity
Click here for reading the letter
October 2011: ANPED, EEB, CEEWEB, CIDSE and the WFC send a letter to EU Environment Ministers on the Rio+20 summit
Click here for reading the letter
Aug 2011: ANPED publishes article on environmental justice
ANPED publishes article on environmental justice in monthly newsletter of effectius, issue14: "Environmental Justice and the bridge between activism and science".
May 2011: ANPED makes a NGO guide to participation in the Rio+20 summit
Click here for reading the Roadmap to Rio
March 2011: ANPED makes a short video on NGO participation in the Rio+20 summit
Click here for watching the video
March 2011: ANPED becomes a member of the MCGI network
Millennium Consumption Goals (MCGs) for the world was the theme of a proposal made in January 2011 at the United Nations in New York by Prof. Munasinghe, during discussions for the forthcoming 2012 UN Conference on sustainable development (UNCSD2012 or Rio+20). The MCG are aimed at the richest 20 percentile of the world’s population living in all countries who consume over 80% of global output — they complement the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) for the poor. The background paper for the original proposal “MCG: How the Rich Can Make the Planet More Sustainable” is available here.
